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India on Thursday said the United States should look beyond Osama bin Laden in its fight against global terrorism, while pointing out that terrorists operating in India had killed tens of thousands of innocent civilians in the past decade.
"The fact that terrorism is an international problem and can only be tackled collectively is something that countries who have suffered most from it know in their bones," India's Ambassador to the United Nations, Kamalesh Sharma, said.
He was speaking on the third day of a UN General Assembly debate on terrorism, convened after September 11 terror attacks on the US.
On Friday, after barely 24 hours of consultations, the Security Council had adopted a US-sponsored resolution obliging member states to deny funds, support and safe haven to terrorist groups, and to exchange intelligence to fight them.
The council condemned the attacks on the United States as a threat to international peace and security.
"The attacks had brought home to a world that probably did not realise this until then, how much of an international phenomenon terrorism truly is," Sharma told the Assembly.
"We therefore hope that the solidarity, which has been manifest over the last two weeks will continue, and that it will not be confined to a hunt for an individual or a group, or to dealing with the symptoms alone," he added.
He noted that only hours before the UN debate began Monday, a suicide bomber and two accomplices attacked the legislative assembly in the Jammu and Kashmir, killing 35 people.
The group, which admitted the attack, Jaish-e-Mohammed, was linked to the Taleban regime in Afghanistan, which Bush has accused of sheltering bin Laden, Sharma said.
"Over the last decade, terrorists have killed tens of thousands in almost daily attacks in India," he said.
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